DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.

A life without goals is a bird without wings

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady.

Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.

We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.